sustentation
Example Sentences
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Soon Premier Mussolini ascended this mighty sustentation, planted himself on an imperial-seeming musnud.
From Time Magazine Archive
The conditions of their sustentation and generation being given, which no difference of physical circumstances can render incredible, the race may, so far as we can see, go on forever.
From The Plurality of Worlds by Hitchcock, Edward
Thorold Rogers justly remarks that the strength of communism lies in the misconduct of administrations, the sustentation of odious and unjust privileges and the support of what are called vested interests.
From The Railroad Question A historical and practical treatise on railroads, and remedies for their abuses by Larrabee, William
The prolonged, delicate, exquisite sustentation of the pictorial tone seems to me a marvel of ingenuity and fancy.
From Views and Reviews by James, Henry
Of peculiar fitnesses which make the earth suited to the sustentation of life, as we know that it is, we shall speak hereafter; and at present pass on to the other planets, Venus and Mercury.
From The Plurality of Worlds by Hitchcock, Edward
